This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... believed to be New Mexican territory, and ten million dollars for relinquishing the remainder of her claims--was approved by the Senate, August 9th. A few days later it took similar action on the separate bill for the admission of California. Thereupon ten southern Senators made a formal written protest ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... believed to be New Mexican territory, and ten million dollars for relinquishing the remainder of her claims--was approved by the Senate, August 9th. A few days later it took similar action on the separate bill for the admission of California. Thereupon ten southern Senators made a formal written protest against this action. As if to follow Calhoun's advice about making a test question of California, they maintained that the passage of such a bill would approve a principle that might forever thereafter exclude the southern states from the enjoyment of the common territory, and that it would also mean that the exclusion of slavery was " an object so high and important as to justify a disregard not only of all the principles of sound policy, but also of the Constitution itself." One after another the bills went through by majorities that no one thought possible a few weeks before. During August the excitement was again intense among the slavery extremists, and Mann wrote that men talked treason as they took their daily meals. But Seward looked for no danger from their menaces, for to him they seemed " rather like petulant than seditious partisans." Before the end of August the Senate had passed all the compromise bills except the one forbidding the use of the District of Columbia as a mart for the inter-state slave-trade. The proposition reported by the committee of thirteen made the act of aiding the escape of a slave a felony punishable Avith ten years of imprisonment, and it gave the city corporations within the District the right to impose conditions upon the movements of free negroes entering, remaining in, or departing from the District. On this account Seward offered a substitute for the whole bill, providing for the compensated abolition of...
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